· Private foundation
Noel Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF MONTEREY | $2,025 |
| ST JOHN PAUL II LIFE CENTER | $1,143 |
| MISSIONARY SISTERS OF SACRO COSTATO | $1,040 |
| MARIA LANAKILA SCHOOL | $1,030 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY - LOS ANGELES | $906 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY - RICHMOND | $906 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY - QUEEN OF PEACE | $906 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY- SACRAMENTO | $906 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY - ROSARIO | $906 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY - FORMATION HOUSE | $906 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY - SAN DIEGO | $906 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY - GIFT OF LOVE | $906 |
| DOLORES MISSION SCHOOL | $333 |
| FEED MY POOR | $333 |
| DISCALCED CARMELITE NUNS | $325 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 83% of grant dollars ($51k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 17% that went abroad ($10k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 17% of all-years giving ($10k)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +395% since the first grant, against -79% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER2× · 2017–2018 · $14k · revenue +63%- LALIVE ACTION2× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +410%
- SJST JOHN PAUL II LIFE CENTER3× · 2019–2024 · $2k · revenue +395%
Funded once
- MOMISSIONARIES OF CHARITY CONTEMPLATIVE NUNS IN ALHAMBRAone grant, 2019 · $4k
- TFTIHATI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -96%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide medical services in a holistic, multi-modal manner, catholic doctrine centered under the teachings of the magisterium, offering prayer- centered services to people regardless of ability to pay, especially to serve the underserved…
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…
The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…
Luminis health's mission is to enhance the health of the people and communities we serve. our vision is living healthier together. we believe that health and wellness are fundamental to everyone. we work side-by-side with our community and…
Ffim grants funds to misiones internationaies in honduras. in 2024 the clinic saw 7,569 patients, 2,225 were new patients, 20 emergency births, 458 papsmears, 129 minor surgeries, 1,345 blood pressure, 1,121 diabeties control among other…
Our mission is to foster community well-being in partnership with our patients by providing excellent, accessible, family-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care. our vision is "healthy lives for all in a healthy santa fe"…
To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…
The Center is an international organization committed to research and education that promotes legal access to reproductive health care including abortion.
Lavie pregnancy care center is to provide christ-centered support to the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of those facing difficult pregnancy decisions by offering life-affirming alternatives to abortion, sexual integrity and…
Keeping faith with the teachings of the roman catholic church and guided by the bishop of metuchen, saint peter's university hospital is committed to humble service to humanity, especially the poor, through competence and good stewardship…
The mission of hshs st. joseph's hospital is to reveal and embody christ's healing love for all people through our high quality franciscan healthcare ministry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St John Paul Ii Life Center and the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Noel Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.